A Game to Play on the Tracks Poetry the Alden Nowlan Prize for

the Alden Nowlan Prize for Excellence and the Banff Centre Bliss Carmen Poetry Award

including The Journey Prize Anthology

Writers Talking gives readers a chance to listen in: Terry Griggs on where stories come from

the cordoned-off area: this cage theme encompasses everything from the calligraphic wrought-iron erected like architectonic ivy around French grave sites to depictions of animals in zoos

even an eloquent up-close exploration of the fearsome nature of an ordinary fly-swatter

A Game to Play on the Tracks Poetry the Alden Nowlan Prize forA Game to Play on the Tracks by Lorna Jackson is the story of booze loose and too smart singer, Arden, and her failed return to the life of country music and the British Columbia bar scene. She has a new baby, some unhealed hurts, and a husband, Nichol, who is stuck in boyhood and thinks and talks in bad poems. Arden doesnt survive the road, and the story belongs then to Nichol and Roy the Boy, those left behind to search the west coast for a good